Newton Cooper
@newtoncooper.bsky.social
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If I wanted to speed run a dystopian dark age, I would:
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If I wanted to speed run a dystopian dark age, I would:
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
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doing data entry with Dvořák's superlative composition Symphony No. 9 is just 😙🤌
I played this in symphonic band as a youth and it has just been one of my favorite pieces ever and it turns out I can still whistle along to all of the 4th
music is just the best
I played this in symphonic band as a youth and it has just been one of my favorite pieces ever and it turns out I can still whistle along to all of the 4th
music is just the best
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
doing data entry with Dvořák's superlative composition Symphony No. 9 is just 😙🤌
I played this in symphonic band as a youth and it has just been one of my favorite pieces ever and it turns out I can still whistle along to all of the 4th
music is just the best
I played this in symphonic band as a youth and it has just been one of my favorite pieces ever and it turns out I can still whistle along to all of the 4th
music is just the best
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We had a big antitrust movement before and we could do it again
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We had a big antitrust movement before and we could do it again
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The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
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“In prosperity, our friends know us;
in adversity, we know our friends.”
~John Churton Collin’s~
in adversity, we know our friends.”
~John Churton Collin’s~
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“In prosperity, our friends know us;
in adversity, we know our friends.”
~John Churton Collin’s~
in adversity, we know our friends.”
~John Churton Collin’s~
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I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
How Lady Gaga Found Herself Again: 'I Feel Lucky to Be Alive'
How Lady Gaga returned from the brink, found love, and made one of her greatest albums with 'Mayhem.'
www.rollingstone.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
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Trump’s recent actions made clear he simply doesn’t care about suffering Americans.
He didn't just refuse to negotiate, he actively made life worse for Americans and moved closer to becoming an absolute Dictator.
Then he celebrated our pain with a Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago.
He didn't just refuse to negotiate, he actively made life worse for Americans and moved closer to becoming an absolute Dictator.
Then he celebrated our pain with a Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago.
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trump’s recent actions made clear he simply doesn’t care about suffering Americans.
He didn't just refuse to negotiate, he actively made life worse for Americans and moved closer to becoming an absolute Dictator.
Then he celebrated our pain with a Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago.
He didn't just refuse to negotiate, he actively made life worse for Americans and moved closer to becoming an absolute Dictator.
Then he celebrated our pain with a Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago.
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800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.
Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.
Glad everything worked out for them.
How about you?
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Facts. Like everything else, he thinks it's up to him and based on his "benevolence".
He thinks affordability is something he can buy or take from someone else.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Facts. Like everything else, he thinks it's up to him and based on his "benevolence".
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Go pick up that oat milk now for the morning coffee.
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Go pick up that oat milk now for the morning coffee.
Just got blocked by someone I've enjoyed following. Not sure why. Maybe he thought I was a bot. Bummer because I enjoyed his takes on Soul/R&B and he's a good sportswriter as well.
October 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just got blocked by someone I've enjoyed following. Not sure why. Maybe he thought I was a bot. Bummer because I enjoyed his takes on Soul/R&B and he's a good sportswriter as well.
Sheesh.
October 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sheesh.
This made me laugh. And then I cried.
THE CONSTITUTION: Congress has the power of the purse.
SCOTUS: How do you, as a man, have a purse?
SCOTUS: How do you, as a man, have a purse?
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This made me laugh. And then I cried.
Pickens has some drops but he's playing like one of the top receivers in the league.
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Pickens has some drops but he's playing like one of the top receivers in the league.
Another Pick Six for Dak to win it. Maybe.
September 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Another Pick Six for Dak to win it. Maybe.
Romeo Doubs is pretty good too.
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Romeo Doubs is pretty good too.
Back in the first half announcers noted that Josh Jacobs was just averaging 2 yards per carry. Guess he was just warming up.
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Back in the first half announcers noted that Josh Jacobs was just averaging 2 yards per carry. Guess he was just warming up.
What a great idea. We need to adopt Franks’s perspective in these trying times.
Respectfully, I read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning this week after disconnecting from the news. It was psychologically cleansing. With no illusions about what’s happening, I felt normal—rather than overwhelmed. America persists within me, in you, in everyone I know.
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What a great idea. We need to adopt Franks’s perspective in these trying times.
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Which is to say a functional democracy can’t just give the people what they want. It has to call people, in their capacity as citizens, to be their better selves and want decent things. And maybe there’s an unseemly whiff of aristocracy around that, but it looks like maybe it’s not optional.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Which is to say a functional democracy can’t just give the people what they want. It has to call people, in their capacity as citizens, to be their better selves and want decent things. And maybe there’s an unseemly whiff of aristocracy around that, but it looks like maybe it’s not optional.
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Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.
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September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
September 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth...
OK, this made me laugh.
I still think about this piece: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-m...
E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
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August 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
OK, this made me laugh.
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A unique thing about racism is that because race is a constantly relative concept, it's incredibly hard to build walls between "us" and "them" that aren't porous, and as a result racists will often craft policies that punish themselves as well if it's the only way to deny something to their victims.
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A unique thing about racism is that because race is a constantly relative concept, it's incredibly hard to build walls between "us" and "them" that aren't porous, and as a result racists will often craft policies that punish themselves as well if it's the only way to deny something to their victims.