Steve Silberman
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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- 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...
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanHow 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
- Reposted by Steve Silberman"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...
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanTwo 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.
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanThe 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.'
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanWant to make the most progress while we have the chance? Think Harris/Walz will have plenty of cash? CHECK OUT DOWNBALLOT FOR DEMOCRACY It's a hitlist of the best donations you can make to help win power up & down the ballot, especially in swing states. www.erlywrm.com/get-down
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanWhen others don’t realize that Project 2025 is already underway in the South.
- The University of Alabama has dozens of references to Dianne Kirksey on its websites as a "trailblazer." Last week they kicked the Black Student Union she founded in 1968 off campus, citing a new law passed by Alabama Republicans that bans it: thecrimsonwhite.com/115369/top-s...
- 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
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- Reposted by Steve SilbermanTo 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-...
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanI 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.
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanOld 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Reposted by Steve Silberman'Trump's aides strain to magically transform Donald Trump into someone who is not Donald Trump, and who is capable of thinking about things or making coherent decisions or avoiding spending every moment in narcissistic rage.'
- 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...
- When Tim Walz talks about "Mind your own damn business," this is exactly what he's talking about. #HarrisWalz2024
- Oklahoma board of education has revoked the license of a teacher who gave her students a QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library’s catalogue of banned books. apnews.com/article/okla...
- RFK Jr. was not just an addict - he was a drug dealer, and not just a drug dealer, but the kind of nasty, freaky drug dealer you'd never buy from again. He's still a weird asshole selling stuff that's bad for you, and today that's Donald Trump and MAGA fascism. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- The best thing about RFK Jr. endorsing Trump is that now I can spend less time as an autism historian explaining to nudnik anti-vaxxers in my friends' social networks that his books and speeches are full of lies. I can just say, "What on Earth is wrong with you?"
- This.
- Whoops! Better trot out Ronny Jackson to dash off another note declaring Trump the healthiest alpha male who ever lived, before he collapses to the floor. [photo by Olivier Touron/AFP] HarrisWalz2024
- Reposted by Steve SilbermanUS government is going to again make Covid tests available for free, starting in late September. Folks will be able to order 4 free tests from Covidtests.gov, ASPR's Dawn O'Connell says. More later.
- This, by @garytaxali.bsky.social.
- Photo of the year, Todd Heisler of NY Times.
- Immaculate.
- The bottom line is that #DNC2024 was one of the most patriotic events I've ever seen. To an extent that surprised me, it not only made me feel proud to be an American, it deepened my sense of what being an American means. #HarrisWalz2024
- That's my President. #HarrisWalz2024
- Kamala's speech blew me away even more than I hoped. She is so ready. We are so ready. It's time to turn the page.
- To mock the rule of law and the Constitution, prominent terrorist cult leader and rapist to host "J6 Awards Gala" on his golf course to raise funds for the murderous thugs who attacked cops that day. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
- Reposted by Steve Silberman"It was my goal to make [the main character] neurodivergent in the way you might have a character with any other trait—like a quiet, shy, or introverted character. It's just something about her. I am all the autistic, but I still don't think it's the most interesting thing about me."
- The Framed Women of Ardemore House is a taut "fish out of water" murder mystery. We talked with author @bschillace.brandyschillace.com about how more novels like hers feature autistic protagonists as complex humans—not only as Special Autism Stories. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2024/08/a-mu...
- What's different about the Democratic party in 2024? No more mincing around. GenX/Millennials/GenZ have taken the keys and are steamrollering those creepy assholes trying to steal our democracy. www.thehandbasket.co/p/dnc-millen...
- Reposted by Steve Silberman"From Gus Walz Sobbing About His Father to Trump Fantasizing About Doggy-Styling His Daughter Over the Resolute Desk, Both Parties' Candidates Have Complex Relationships with Their Children" #plausibleheadlines
- For the record, I'm STILL weeping over Gus Walz's "That's my dad!" I miss mine, too. Thanks, Dad.
- Martian in skin mask who just crash-landed on Earth bravely tries to make conversation with humans as he wrestles with the confusing concept of a "donut shop." www.threads.net/@meidastouch...
