Seth Maxon

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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 🐩/đŸ„š.

Breaking news: US has recorded more measles cases in 2026 than in any other year since disease was declared eliminated in 2000
Screenshot of 4 NYT news notifications: 1) Breaking News: The government said it would withdraw subpoenas of Times journalists 2) Breaking News: Trump administration drops request to subpoena list of Jewish people at University of Pennsylvania 3) Trump Jr. Cashes In: Donald Trump Jr's firm made staggering returns investing in businesses affected by President Trump's policies 4) Oil Hits $100/Barrel: Prices hit milestone for first time since May as war with Iran widens and stifles flow of energy
"There are two upshots to this conclusion. One is that it should be significantly harder for many employment discrimination plaintiffs to prevail. The other, which is potentially even more significant, is that elected officials should lose much of their power to remedy discrimination of all kinds, and the scope of civil rights law should be determined primarily by the Supreme Court."
Text screenshot: "On top of that, Alito’s Callais opinion turns Gingles on its head. Again, Gingles held that, because states that are racially polarized tend to produce unfair maps, those states sometimes had special obligations under the Voting Rights Act. Callais, by contrast, holds that racially polarized states enjoy enhanced protections against being sued for racial gerrymandering. Under Callais, a state that is accused of racial gerrymandering may defend against that suit by demonstrating that its maps also benefit the political party that controls the state legislature. So the most racially polarized states will enjoy the highest level of immunity from lawsuits challenging their maps."
a screenshot headline and subheadline: God Just Hates the Buffalo Bills Don't blame the kicker. Or the fake punt. Blame God. dated Jan 22, 2024
Tweet from me from 12/24/21 reading: Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie Admired: Hustlers is a Christmas movie Inspired: American Factory is a Christmas movie it has one RT (my own) and two likes
“I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy ... all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.”
Seth Jones of the Florida Panthers lifts Stanley Cup with caption "First Player Named Seth to Win the Stanley Cup"
"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."
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.
"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."
"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."
A paragraph highlighted from the linked piece about how political violence eats at the morality and solidarity of a society.