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Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Here's how right-wing businessmen faked a Gen Z One Piece revolution in Mexico this weekend
www.garbageday.email/p/right-wing...
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.

Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting
www.garbageday.email/p/climbing-t...
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
www.garbageday.email/p/we-did-it-zo
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This year, Halloween collided with a right-wing digital machine that has spent the last year trying to co-opt, drown out, and weaponize social platforms.
www.garbageday.email/p/cancel-cul...
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I left after the nazi letter in early 2024. And they don't make it easy to leave. I spent that summer watching my growth totally flatline and thought Garbage Day was basically over. I don't think that anymore. I left Substack with around 65k readers. We're now basically at 100k.
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Zohran doesn't speak until later, but he came out to personally escort Hochul off stage after the heckling. Rough stuff lol.
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hochul pronounced "Mamdani" wrong and now the crowd is yelling it back at her. Brutal. She can't get a word out. Huge chants of "tax the rich" at her, as well. She finally broke down and just said, "I can hear you."
October 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Wow this is rough. Gov Kathy Hochul is speaking the Zohran rally. She's listing examples of Trump admin overreach in NY and the crowd is heckling her loudly, chanting, "do something, you're the governor." Taking forever for her to get through her speech.
October 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
At the Zohran, AOC, Bernie Sanders rally in NYC. Cops just threw this guy out. Onlookers in the section said he was with another man who was also thrown out for screaming about communism in Cuba (being bad). Rally doesn't start for like another hour. Weird decision to start heckling so early.
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A second favorable Graham Platner poll has hit the timeline. Here's some more thoughts from me on the end of "cancel culture" and how we navigate a world of feeds jammed up with impenetrable outrage.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-nation...
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I've spent the last year interviewing prominent Dems, pundits, and internet culture researchers, who have all sort of been saying the same thing: It's possible we're living in a post-"cancel culture" world. Platner's favorable polling and huge IRL crowds seem to point to that being the case.
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Today we're sharing a piece from @bumas.bsky.social we sent out to our paying readers yesterday. It's, as best we can tell, the most definitive list of who is running Trump's digital operation. Meet the far-right hype house flooding our of our feeds with shit.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-who...
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The twin scandals of Graham Platner's Reddit history and the Young Republican nazi texts, though vastly different in scope and seriousness, reveal the defining political question of the 2020s: How do you manage an entire country of angry, online men?
www.garbageday.email/p/young-repu...
October 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not feeling too great about how things are going!!!
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slightly...
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"starting nofap in 1/2 months"
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A perpetual Reichstag Fire for the 24-hour news cycle
www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This new wave of edgelord shooters is a beast of Trump administration's own making.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM