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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · 8d

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The Most Important Decision You'll Ever Make

Attention, platforms, and choice

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Sep 5

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On Journalists as Influencers

What's really the difference these days?

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Sep 5

The line between being an influencer and a journalist has never been thinner.

Are we all suffering for it?

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Sep 3

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The Tao of Taylor Lorenz

Plus: Trump death hoax and a very good self defense guide

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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Social Media Doesn't Exist

Social media is dead. Long live social media?

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Weekly Scroll: Trolling the President

Gavin's gambit, the UK's tech woes, and a good Philomena Cunk post

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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andrewxu87.bsky.social @andrewxu87.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎙️ 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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 13

I wrote about the dangers of indulging in conspiracy politics at Infinite Scroll:

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The Danger of Conspiracy Politics

It always comes back to bite you

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 13

There isn't going to be a 'client list' and Epstein almost certainly killed himself.

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 9

An update on our friends over at X

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 6

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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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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The Carcinization of Content

Everything, in the end, becomes TikTok

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jun 28

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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Weekly Scroll: Big Sticks and Tiny Chefs

Plus! AI Law and Headline Of The Year

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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jun 22

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jun 14

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · May 30

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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Jeremiah Johnson @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social · May 21

I'm sorry, but we have to stop calling everything slop

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Stop Calling Everything Slop

The degradation of a once-useful term

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