Ryan Broderick
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
So I covered the spread of COVID on Chinese social media in late 2019 into early 2020. And it really does feel a lot like that again, but instead of tracking mentions of the spread of a dangerous virus it's, uh, a complete economic collapse...
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So I covered the spread of COVID on Chinese social media in late 2019 into early 2020. And it really does feel a lot like that again, but instead of tracking mentions of the spread of a dangerous virus it's, uh, a complete economic collapse...
this is my Avengers Endgame
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
this is my Avengers Endgame
Gen Z internet is having a meltdown this week. One group is raging over a cute photo of someone's living room, another is mad that pop girlies weren't on Pitchfork's best of 2025 lists. Both meltdowns are linked to something I'm calling "offline shock."
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gen Z internet is having a meltdown this week. One group is raging over a cute photo of someone's living room, another is mad that pop girlies weren't on Pitchfork's best of 2025 lists. Both meltdowns are linked to something I'm calling "offline shock."
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Took 24 hours of back and forth with their appeals system, but TikTok has finally posted my video. Thank you TikTok, sorry I said "nazi" in a video about all the nazis on your platform.
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Took 24 hours of back and forth with their appeals system, but TikTok has finally posted my video. Thank you TikTok, sorry I said "nazi" in a video about all the nazis on your platform.
I'm sorry I fucking hate the fact I have to deal with short-form video platforms. TikTok blocked my video about the Nazi content spreading across their own platform. Fine to make as many Charlie Kirk Sonnenrad brainrot videos as you want but it's apparently a problem to talk about it!!
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I'm sorry I fucking hate the fact I have to deal with short-form video platforms. TikTok blocked my video about the Nazi content spreading across their own platform. Fine to make as many Charlie Kirk Sonnenrad brainrot videos as you want but it's apparently a problem to talk about it!!
Ironic memes about the "We Are Charlie Kirk" song, Kirk faceswaps, and Nazi occulist brainrot have collided on TikTok and things are getting very, very dark very, very fast. Your kids are watching nazislop on TikTok.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ironic memes about the "We Are Charlie Kirk" song, Kirk faceswaps, and Nazi occulist brainrot have collided on TikTok and things are getting very, very dark very, very fast. Your kids are watching nazislop on TikTok.
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The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The new location update on X revealed what we've all kinda known all along: Republicans have been astroturfing themselves.
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Here's how right-wing businessmen faked a Gen Z One Piece revolution in Mexico this weekend
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November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here's how right-wing businessmen faked a Gen Z One Piece revolution in Mexico this weekend
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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?
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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?
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November 17, 2025 at 9:35 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?
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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?
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Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting
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November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Covering the right-wing digital ecosystem requires a very specialized kind of reporting
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*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
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November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
*Jesse Plemons in “Civil War” voice* “What kind of Democrat are you?”
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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.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:43 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.
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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
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.
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
Zohran doesn't speak until later, but he came out to personally escort Hochul off stage after the heckling. Rough stuff lol.
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
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."
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:12 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...
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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
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.
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.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:48 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...
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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
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.
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
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?
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October 20, 2025 at 6:03 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...
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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.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:40 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.
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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
Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...