Jeremiah Johnson
@jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social
Founder @cnliberalism.org. Writing at Infinite Scroll. Carly Rae Jepsen stan. Send me the worst tweets on this site.
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A surprising bit of advice for parents: You should actually give your kids a tablet as young as 3-4 years old.
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How to teach your kids about the Internet
A step by step guide to introducing kids to technology
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October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A surprising bit of advice for parents: You should actually give your kids a tablet as young as 3-4 years old.
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Last week I read The Sirens' Call from @chrislhayes.bsky.social. It made me think about the relationships between social media platforms, attention, and choice, and how much of our lives we unconsciously surrender to algorithms.
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Last week I read The Sirens' Call from @chrislhayes.bsky.social. It made me think about the relationships between social media platforms, attention, and choice, and how much of our lives we unconsciously surrender to algorithms.
The line between being an influencer and a journalist has never been thinner.
Are we all suffering for it?
Are we all suffering for it?
September 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The line between being an influencer and a journalist has never been thinner.
Are we all suffering for it?
Are we all suffering for it?
Why does Taylor Lorenz constantly find herself in the center of online drama?
It's because she can't separate her job as a journalist with her desire to be an influencer.
It's because she can't separate her job as a journalist with her desire to be an influencer.
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Why does Taylor Lorenz constantly find herself in the center of online drama?
It's because she can't separate her job as a journalist with her desire to be an influencer.
It's because she can't separate her job as a journalist with her desire to be an influencer.
When Facebook started, Zuckerberg talked about how his goal was to build human connections. Now Meta optimizes their apps to maximize the amount of time you spend scrolling Reels, alone.
Is there anything still social about social media?
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Is there anything still social about social media?
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Social Media Doesn't Exist
Social media is dead. Long live social media?
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August 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When Facebook started, Zuckerberg talked about how his goal was to build human connections. Now Meta optimizes their apps to maximize the amount of time you spend scrolling Reels, alone.
Is there anything still social about social media?
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Is there anything still social about social media?
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Gavin Newsom is trying to answer two very simple questions: Does anyone hate Republicans as much as he does? And can trolling propel a Democrat to the presidency?
August 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Gavin Newsom is trying to answer two very simple questions: Does anyone hate Republicans as much as he does? And can trolling propel a Democrat to the presidency?
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🎙️ Just dropped a fascinating podcast episode with @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social , co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism! We covered everything from political hobbyism to why social media culture keeps melting our brains. Have a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0ieB...
Jeremiah Johnson on Liberalism and How Social Media Shapes Us
Frames of Space · Episode
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August 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🎙️ Just dropped a fascinating podcast episode with @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social , co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism! We covered everything from political hobbyism to why social media culture keeps melting our brains. Have a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0ieB...
There’s nothing in right wing politics more important than pissing off the liberals. And if the liberals aren’t mad enough, the outrage machine will manufacture angry liberals out of thin air.
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In Search of Furious Liberals
If angry liberals don't exist, they will be manufactured
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August 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
There’s nothing in right wing politics more important than pissing off the liberals. And if the liberals aren’t mad enough, the outrage machine will manufacture angry liberals out of thin air.
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It's been funny to watch the Coldplay CEO scandal develop, but the punishment - the sheer scale of being ritually humiliated by the entire internet - doesn't fit the crime.
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Weekly Scroll: The Cheating Panopticon
Plus! Substack hits unicorn status, Trump's Epstein troubles, YouTube Slop and threatening Labubus
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July 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's been funny to watch the Coldplay CEO scandal develop, but the punishment - the sheer scale of being ritually humiliated by the entire internet - doesn't fit the crime.
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There isn't going to be a 'client list' and Epstein almost certainly killed himself.
July 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There isn't going to be a 'client list' and Epstein almost certainly killed himself.
An update on our friends over at X
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
An update on our friends over at X
There seem to be two camps in the GOP right now - those who are embarrassed by what’s in the big Republican bill (but voted for it anyways), and those who just want to make gleeful hype video about alligators eating immigrants.
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Weekly Scroll: Big Ugly Bill
Plus! Soham Gets Fired and Cat Arms
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July 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
There seem to be two camps in the GOP right now - those who are embarrassed by what’s in the big Republican bill (but voted for it anyways), and those who just want to make gleeful hype video about alligators eating immigrants.
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Check out my podcast episode with liberal political writer @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social about topics he doesn’t usually cover: dating, marriage and gender!
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Podcast: Jeremiah Johnson on Dating, Marriage, and Self Improvement
Listen now | You know Jeremiah Johnson from liberal politics, but lately he made a splash defending his marriage on Twitter.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Check out my podcast episode with liberal political writer @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social about topics he doesn’t usually cover: dating, marriage and gender!
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Why is every social media site more and more dominated by shortform vertical video?
And what does any of that have to do with crabs?
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And what does any of that have to do with crabs?
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The Carcinization of Content
Everything, in the end, becomes TikTok
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July 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why is every social media site more and more dominated by shortform vertical video?
And what does any of that have to do with crabs?
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And what does any of that have to do with crabs?
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This edition of the Weekly Scroll is frankly, incredible:
* Bill Maher loses a war with a Stick Account
* The sad saga of Tiny Chef
* Serious developments in AI copyright law
* Why is Substack so liberal-coded?
* YouTube's slop problems
And more!
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* Bill Maher loses a war with a Stick Account
* The sad saga of Tiny Chef
* Serious developments in AI copyright law
* Why is Substack so liberal-coded?
* YouTube's slop problems
And more!
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Weekly Scroll: Big Sticks and Tiny Chefs
Plus! AI Law and Headline Of The Year
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June 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This edition of the Weekly Scroll is frankly, incredible:
* Bill Maher loses a war with a Stick Account
* The sad saga of Tiny Chef
* Serious developments in AI copyright law
* Why is Substack so liberal-coded?
* YouTube's slop problems
And more!
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* Bill Maher loses a war with a Stick Account
* The sad saga of Tiny Chef
* Serious developments in AI copyright law
* Why is Substack so liberal-coded?
* YouTube's slop problems
And more!
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The New Liberal Action Summit is back for our fourth year! We're bringing together center-left members of congress, thinkers, activists and leaders to revitalize liberalism in America.
Scholarships are available for those who want to attend!
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Scholarships are available for those who want to attend!
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The 2025 New Liberal Action Summit — Center for New Liberalism
Registration is open! Our New Liberal Action Summit (NLAS) Series is Coming to D.C., July 13th through the 15th!
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June 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The New Liberal Action Summit is back for our fourth year! We're bringing together center-left members of congress, thinkers, activists and leaders to revitalize liberalism in America.
Scholarships are available for those who want to attend!
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Scholarships are available for those who want to attend!
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The Internet was a different places in the mid 2000s - more anarchic and chaotic, less dominated by platforms, and generally weirder and freer. What was virality like in the age before capital-C Content dominated the web?
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Videos Before Content
Classic videos from the time when there were no 'content creators'
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June 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The Internet was a different places in the mid 2000s - more anarchic and chaotic, less dominated by platforms, and generally weirder and freer. What was virality like in the age before capital-C Content dominated the web?
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Nobody in left-of-center politics can shut up about the book Abundance. But what are we really fighting about when we fight about Abundance?
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Fighting About Abundance
Plus! Deeper into our grim AI future
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June 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Nobody in left-of-center politics can shut up about the book Abundance. But what are we really fighting about when we fight about Abundance?
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Some thoughts on the Menswear Guy, ICE protests, and our inability to be normal
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Can Anyone Be Normal For One Goddamn Minute?
Politics in the age of zero chill
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June 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Some thoughts on the Menswear Guy, ICE protests, and our inability to be normal
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I wrote a post about an issue I’ve been thinking over for a while: How does Russian propaganda work? Not the propaganda they aim at the West, but what they aim at their own citizens. How is Russia creating a new cohort of fascists in their youngest generations?
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Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth
How Putin uses the media to indoctrinate Russia's youth
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May 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote a post about an issue I’ve been thinking over for a while: How does Russian propaganda work? Not the propaganda they aim at the West, but what they aim at their own citizens. How is Russia creating a new cohort of fascists in their youngest generations?
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Stop Calling Everything Slop
The degradation of a once-useful term
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May 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This week's Weekly Scroll: New popes, cooked students, meme wars, and a very good 16th century TMZ
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Weekly Scroll: New Popes and Cooked Kids
Plus! Meme Wars and 16th Century TMZ
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May 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This week's Weekly Scroll: New popes, cooked students, meme wars, and a very good 16th century TMZ
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It looks like you're a celebrity embroiled in a scandal. Don't worry, the pros are here to help. Just stay away from ukuleles.
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Crisis PR for Dummies
You too can avoid being cancelled!
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May 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It looks like you're a celebrity embroiled in a scandal. Don't worry, the pros are here to help. Just stay away from ukuleles.
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The revelation this week of secretive right wing group chats filled with billionaires & media moguls is the culmination of a long running trend: important conversations are moving away from global social media platforms and into private or semi-private spaces.
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May 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The revelation this week of secretive right wing group chats filled with billionaires & media moguls is the culmination of a long running trend: important conversations are moving away from global social media platforms and into private or semi-private spaces.
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Older books are selling, newer ones aren’t. Old Music is all the rage, newer artists can barely get played. Older video games and old movie franchises suck up all the attention.
Old art is strangling new art
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Old art is strangling new art
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Old Art is Strangling New Art
Why is older content dominating every artistic field?
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April 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Older books are selling, newer ones aren’t. Old Music is all the rage, newer artists can barely get played. Older video games and old movie franchises suck up all the attention.
Old art is strangling new art
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Old art is strangling new art
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