Sean Springer
@seanspringer.bsky.social
I hope you saw “Zero Dark Poetry” and “Three Strikes YOU’RE DEAD!!” at the 2023 and 2024 Hamilton Fringe Festivals! If you didn’t, do your best imagining what they were like.
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These are all great ideas, I hope this guy runs for President someday.
In his farewell address, Biden calls for:
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
January 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These are all great ideas, I hope this guy runs for President someday.
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They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.
January 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.
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The Laken Riley Act is a sweeping assault on legal immigration. It would subject immigrants *authorized to live and work here* to indefinite detention without a criminal conviction. And it would let a federal judge ban ALL visas from entire countries at a state's request. slate.com/news-and-pol...
This New Immigration Bill That’s About to Pass Is a Horrifying Trojan Horse
If Democrats cannot recover their nerve and stand up to this extremism, they will be complicit in the devastating consequences of its passage.
slate.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Laken Riley Act is a sweeping assault on legal immigration. It would subject immigrants *authorized to live and work here* to indefinite detention without a criminal conviction. And it would let a federal judge ban ALL visas from entire countries at a state's request. slate.com/news-and-pol...
unlike you I get my news from a reliable source
January 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
unlike you I get my news from a reliable source
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ffs. One of the very first concentration camps, Dachau, opened in March of 1933, two months after Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Dachau's primary purpose was to hold political dissidents who opposed Nazi ideology, including: communists, social democrats, and other trade unionists.
"They were socialists. He was a communist," AfD's Alice Weidel says about Adolf Hitler on this call with Musk.
January 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ffs. One of the very first concentration camps, Dachau, opened in March of 1933, two months after Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Dachau's primary purpose was to hold political dissidents who opposed Nazi ideology, including: communists, social democrats, and other trade unionists.
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Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial
How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.
noraloreto.substack.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
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I spent the first part of the year wrapping up the book, but I also wrote a few other things! First up, I aired my grievances with a default TV storytelling trope, as part of a recurring column w/ fellow LARB editors Michael Szalay and @sayanniething.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Past Is Never Dead: On TV’s Backstory Problem | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the latest Screen Shots column, Elizabeth Alsop explores the ubiquity—and limitations—of the “trauma backstory.”
lareviewofbooks.org
December 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I spent the first part of the year wrapping up the book, but I also wrote a few other things! First up, I aired my grievances with a default TV storytelling trope, as part of a recurring column w/ fellow LARB editors Michael Szalay and @sayanniething.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Why do voters rebel? Same reason why kids have weird hair.
December 14, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Why do voters rebel? Same reason why kids have weird hair.
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soft launching this here, a tonic for your thanksgiving tummy aches
Listen to Taking The L by You're On Your Own on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/s51WL
Listen to Taking The L by You're On Your Own on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/s51WL
Ep 1: Taking An L
Andy and Tarik chat about the value of losing.
on.soundcloud.com
November 28, 2024 at 11:07 PM
soft launching this here, a tonic for your thanksgiving tummy aches
Listen to Taking The L by You're On Your Own on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/s51WL
Listen to Taking The L by You're On Your Own on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/s51WL
Reader: Will you ***please*** stop jesting?
DFW: No.
DFW: No.
November 29, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Reader: Will you ***please*** stop jesting?
DFW: No.
DFW: No.
If you’re not getting anything in return, it might be because you’re not giving service with a smile. Smile! It’s free!
November 28, 2024 at 1:39 AM
If you’re not getting anything in return, it might be because you’re not giving service with a smile. Smile! It’s free!
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When you have the brain of a dog
November 27, 2024 at 4:34 AM
When you have the brain of a dog
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Fun Time Online
October 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Fun Time Online
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Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
November 16, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What To Do About It
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
amzn.eu/d/egnlEPw
My attempt to explain the actual science of how phones affect kids, TO kids, and push back against a narrative dominated by "concerned" parents loudly agreeing with each other, bolstered by Johnathan bloody Haidt
Antigone, translated by Anne Carson
November 14, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Antigone, translated by Anne Carson
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In my latest newsletter I wrote: "Concern over the existence and safety of trans people in public life had absolutely no impact on this election, and anyone saying otherwise is an asshole."
I wanted to share a response I received (CW: anti-trans rhetoric) and how I replied. Zero tolerance policy.
I wanted to share a response I received (CW: anti-trans rhetoric) and how I replied. Zero tolerance policy.
November 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
In my latest newsletter I wrote: "Concern over the existence and safety of trans people in public life had absolutely no impact on this election, and anyone saying otherwise is an asshole."
I wanted to share a response I received (CW: anti-trans rhetoric) and how I replied. Zero tolerance policy.
I wanted to share a response I received (CW: anti-trans rhetoric) and how I replied. Zero tolerance policy.
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Sarah McBride is projected to make history as the first openly trans person to be elected to Congress
Sarah McBride Makes History As The First Openly Trans Member Of Congress
The 34-year-old Delaware state senator has said that her victory could be "a lifesaving message" for trans youth.
www.huffpost.com
November 6, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Sarah McBride is projected to make history as the first openly trans person to be elected to Congress
Rob Reiner, for his own sake, for ours, posts his next and final tweet:
November 5, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Rob Reiner, for his own sake, for ours, posts his next and final tweet:
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they would do better to hire 30 poets
The University of Maryland is hiring 30(!!!) faculty members in Artificial Intelligence (broadly defined):
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor
The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM; aim.umd.edu) has openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.We ...
ejobs.umd.edu
October 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM
they would do better to hire 30 poets
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Not many private companies work on tree crops, because the return on investment is decades out. If you want to continue to see new, good apples (and cherries and peaches and pears and chestnuts and hazelnuts and and and...) support your local Ag university's public breeding programs!
This is a good time to remind everyone that the honeycrisp was invented at a public university (and my university at that).
Apples are SO GOOD now! Here's how we got so many amazing varieties. Isn't it wonderful that you can hold a pinnacle of human achievement in your hand and take a bite? 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
October 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Not many private companies work on tree crops, because the return on investment is decades out. If you want to continue to see new, good apples (and cherries and peaches and pears and chestnuts and hazelnuts and and and...) support your local Ag university's public breeding programs!
very disappointed to learn that the guy from the bear does not have the gene wilder gene
www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/e...
www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/e...
Jeremy Allen White says no, he is still not related to look-a-like Gene Wilder | CNN
Jeremy Allen White took the opportunity on Thursday to remind us all that no, he is still not related to Gene Wilder.
www.cnn.com
October 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM
very disappointed to learn that the guy from the bear does not have the gene wilder gene
www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/e...
www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/e...
"It's okay, MAC-Donalds. Heh. Whaddya think they do there? They don't listen to Stevie Wonder, I assure you."
October 22, 2024 at 8:28 PM
"It's okay, MAC-Donalds. Heh. Whaddya think they do there? They don't listen to Stevie Wonder, I assure you."