Jeremiah Johnson

Weekly Scroll: The Cheating Panopticon Plus! Substack hits unicorn status, Trump's Epstein troubles, YouTube Slop and threatening Labubus

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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The Danger of Conspiracy Politics It always comes back to bite you

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

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

An update on our friends over at X

Weekly Scroll: Big Ugly Bill Plus! Soham Gets Fired and Cat Arms

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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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.

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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The Carcinization of Content Everything, in the end, becomes TikTok

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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Weekly Scroll: Big Sticks and Tiny Chefs Plus! AI Law and Headline Of The Year

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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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!

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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Videos Before Content Classic videos from the time when there were no 'content creators'

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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Fighting About Abundance Plus! Deeper into our grim AI future

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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Can Anyone Be Normal For One Goddamn Minute? Politics in the age of zero chill

Some thoughts on the Menswear Guy, ICE protests, and our inability to be normal

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Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth How Putin uses the media to indoctrinate Russia's youth

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

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

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Weekly Scroll: New Popes and Cooked Kids Plus! Meme Wars and 16th Century TMZ

This week's Weekly Scroll: New popes, cooked students, meme wars, and a very good 16th century TMZ

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Crisis PR for Dummies You too can avoid being cancelled!

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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Old Art is Strangling New Art Why is older content dominating every artistic field?

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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Weekly Scroll: YouTube's AI Problem Plus! Vibe Shift Reversal and Dr Pepper Guy

AI slop has been a problem on Facebook for years, but it’s starting to become a much bigger problem on YouTube as well.

Plus! Kanye's album, vibe shift corrections, and the Dr Pepper Guy - it's the Weekly Scroll

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Remember: Donald Trump is killing your 401K and eroding the value of the dollar, but on the other hand, he's also causing mortgage rates to skyrocket

Decoding Canada's Election ft. J.J. McCullough Podcast Episode · The New Liberal Podcast · 04/17/2025 · 57m

I did a great podcast with @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social all about the Canadian election. Give it a listen!

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Weekly Scroll: A Time To Kill Globe Emojis Gone Viral and Le Poisson Steve

The Globe Emojis are pondering violence, social media is bleeding into traditional media, and the kids are dancing with Le Poisson Steve. It’s the Weekly Scroll:

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It’s Time To Pay Kidney Donors We need more kidney donations. I would know.

Paying kidney donors would save tens of thousands of lives every year. The End Kidney Deaths Act is in the House right now to do so.

We don't have to accept deaths from kidney disease. We know how to save these lives. We just have to take the step.

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The New Age of Thought Crime Conservatives raged against woke cancellations. Now they're eagerly doing it themselves.

Republicans spent years complaining that free speech was under attack. Now Donald Trump is instituting a new Thought Police and they've all gone silent about it.

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As far as I can tell a bunch of people went to the Uniqlo but Derek wasn't there

Should We Ban Gambling on Smartphones? A conversation between two parts of my brain

In which I debate myself on whether or not we should ban mobile gambling on smartphones:

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A: "Unions" can't stop economic reality. Working in a toaster factory is a low value/low wage job no matter what
B: Factory work sucks and nobody wants to do it if they have other options
C: I know this is true because there are like half a million open mftg jobs unfilled and you haven't jumped.

Weekly Scroll: Nervous MAGAs Plus! Creepy AI and College Admission Discourse

Have the tariffs started causing conservative influencers to turn on Trump?

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There is no grand plan behind the Trump tariffs. There is no secret theory among his team. They're just idiots.

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