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Seth Maxon
@methsaxon.bsky.social
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Editor/journalist helping out at @vox.com and @flaminghydra.com. Edited politics and sports at @slate.com for a long time. @seth.maxon on 🐦/🥚.
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Finally!!!!
Seth Jones of the Florida Panthers lifts Stanley Cup with caption "First Player Named Seth to Win the Stanley Cup"
June 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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OK true, the viral Crimson piece challenging Linda McMahon to a televised cage match is great. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Right now, as a (non-Marxist) friend of mine wisely pointed out, “this is like in elementary school when one person doesn’t clean up snack so they take away snack for everyone.” We don’t need to indulge this ridiculous collective punishment, which if anything, is more similar to when one person doesn’t clean up snack, so they demolish the part of the classroom where that kid never plays anyway."
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Very pumped to have come home to this wedged into my mailbox. Thanks @flaminghydra.com!
The Awl: The Book, An anthology of writing from the internet's best publication (2009-2018) edited by Carrie Frye, propped on a table in front of some flowers.
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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slate.com/news-and-pol...
"The collective impact of all of this neurotic, overcautious hand-wringing was to communicate indifference to the voters. Sure, what Trump did was bad, their actions said, but not bad enough for a single institution of American national governance to officially declare him unfit for office or prohibit him from winning the presidency again. The voters still could have done what their vaunted institutions and timid leaders could not—firmly and unambiguously rejected the pathogen of Trump-led authoritarianism even at a time of broad dissatisfaction with Democratic rule. Instead they shrugged and unlocked the door for him to walk right back through. Rarely in American history has one man been so incontrovertibly responsible for an effort to destroy constitutional democracy, and yet in two weeks he will be sworn into an office that has been precleared by the Supreme Court for virtually unlimited mayhem and lawbreaking. The lesson here is that restraint in the pursuit of Trumpism is no virtue; a man who considers himself unbound by laws, precedent, institutions, and norms cannot be contained by them."
January 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Read this personal piece on the struggle to keep education alive in Gaza. This section hit me. slate.com/news-and-pol...
"Our favorite place at school is the science lab. More than any other place, it used to unite the students and teachers as colleagues when we conducted our many scientific experiments together. Unfortunately, we had an appointment for classes in the lab on Oct. 8, 2023; the war deprived us of it." "Wars are the biggest enemy of all students. When we heard the sounds of warplanes roaming the skies of Gaza, we were worried. The students were sitting under the chairs, and we were calming them down by telling them that there would be no bombing. Many of them asked us repeatedly if there might be a war in Gaza. Then each one of them would start talking about their experience in previous wars and express their intense hatred for war and destruction. I tried comforting them by telling them that there would be no more wars, and that what happened in the 2021 war would not be repeated. Unfortunately, we lived through a difficult conflict then. The school was severely damaged, and my science lab was, too. We returned for the next year later than other schools. When the current war started, the administration had not even finished restoring and repairing the school from the previous one."
December 3, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Why would @nytimes.com call this a Correction as if they fucked up when it's a response to their story describing actions that by its own language have not happened yet?
November 28, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Megacorp’s Podcasting Subsidiary Weighing Whether to Fund Yellowstone, Yosemite for a Generation or Kelce Brother Debate Over Best Hot Wing Spot in Dallas
August 27, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Related, impossible to read this passage and not think about Israel-Palestine. slate.com/news-and-pol...
A paragraph highlighted from the linked piece about how political violence eats at the morality and solidarity of a society.
July 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Watching this fiasco artificial intelligence is really the right field for them, amiright folks? Artificial intelligence. You got that right, fake smart guys.
November 21, 2023 at 4:39 AM
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There’s still only one Mike Johnson I recognize.
October 26, 2023 at 1:40 AM